Window regulator



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A. c. ANDERSEN WINDOW REGULATOR Filed July 14, 1924 Z'SheetS-Sheet 1 INVENTOR.

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ANDREW CHRISTIAN ANDERS EN, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN ASSIGNOR TO TERNSTEDT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHI- can.

Application. filed July 14,

the windows in the forward 'part of the car In nearl all cars the rear quarter windows can be et down part way on account of the wheel heuslng. In quite a few cars, it

is still customary to use the window straps because they are cheap, the window is not so often opened, and because the regulator handle adjacent the rear quarter is a source of annoyance especially to women in catching and tearing their clothes.

One cheap form of regulator which is in quite extensive use is one that has a vertical notched bar for receiving a locking device which is connected to the window sash. The counterbalancing spring'and lever tend to lift the window. A regulator of thiskind is objectionable because the bar is always exposedand the lever action is never directly controlled but only by raising or lowering the sash.

It is the object of the present inventionto provide a regulator in which the lifting lever is directly controlled by a slide that runs transversely across the sill. Such a control is not broadly new for apparatus to afi'ect this action by means of a system of levers, as shown in the prior Heintz Pat-" ent No. 1,436,407. This, however, involves 4.0 a system of levers which is very much more expensive to contract than the invention no about to be described.

In the drawings: v Fig. 1 is an inside elevation of the car 46 equipped with my improved window regula tor Fig. 2' is a view of the inside of the arm rest board showing the new regulator in place. V p I is a section taken on the line. 33 -ofFig.2. a

Fig. 4 is a detail of the slide. 2. f I Fig. 5 is a section on th Fig. 4. 1 Fig. 6 is another detailiof the slide.

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1924. Serial No. 725,759.

The arm rest board a, which is sometimes called the lock board, is notched as at 6. Over this notch is fitted a plate 0 which is secured to the arm rest board by screws 6. This plate has a punched out stop 01 for the lifting lever 6. This lifting lever is pivoted to the plate by special machine stud 7 which is slotted as at g to receive one end of the spiral counterbalancing spring h; the other end is looped over the turned over arm z" of the regulatorplate. The stud f is secured to the lever e so as to turn therewith, hence the movement of the lever tends to either wind-or unwind the counterbalancing spring. On the end of the lever is a roll 7' which fits into the channel 71: of the window sash.-

There is secured under'th'e sill or garnish moulding ,m a channel-like track n. i The lower flange of this track is notched as at 0. A carriage or slide p-runs in this channel track. This slide comprises a strip of metal bent out as shown in Fig. 5, and having riveted to its'ends appair of fibre strips g. The center offset portion r forms ahousing to receive the operating handle 8. This is in the 'form ofa stamping which forms a clutch or dogging device; This dogging device has a tooth t struck out from the stock. The wire spring u is supported on the. lugs o struck out from the carriage housing; the ends are looped over the tooth t and thereby tend to keep the dog in its vertical position; In this position the tooth t is arrangedto 'engagein one of the notches o of the lower flange of the track, as is shown in Fig. 3. However, as soon as one grasps "the handle the dogging device tends to rock on" one of the. nubs m which are located on the forwardly and rearwardly extending arms ofthe stamped metal dog. This is well illustrated in Fig. 6. This, one'willrsee, automatically releases the tooth if from the notch and permits the handle to be operated .to slide the carriage.

The depending web 1 of the carriage is pivoted to the lifting lever e nearrthe end thereof. This link 1n connection with the slide makes it a very simple and'inegzpensive regulator; there are only two parts to be connected to the arm rest board, to w1t :.105 the regulator plate and the track. The slide 1, travels in a horizontal path on a track which is completely concealed in the window well.

that it is not broadly new to use a lever to, raise .or lower the lifting 110 lever, but as far as I am advised ,a regulator of this type'has not been successful for obvious reasons. The\ idea of a horizontally guided slide having a direct draft and thrust connection with the lifting lever, I believe to be a new and valuable improvement, because a relatively cheap construction, because the operating track is completely concealed and arranged to slide along the track and to lock 11ft because the operatin handle is in a position not to interfere with the occupants of the rear seat. Y

What I claim is:

1'. A window regulator having in combination, a track arranged to belocatedin a substantiallyhorizontal line along the top of the window well, a hand-controlled slide 1n various intermediate positions, a window lifting lever arranged to .be plvotally supk ported by the board at the side of the window well and having its free end in slidable engagement with the bottom of the window sash, and a direct draft and thrust connection between theslide and the said lever.-

2. A' window regulator having in combislidable engagement with the bottom of the,

window sash and a link directly connecting the slide and the lifting lever.

3. A window rregulator, having in combination a track arranged to be located in a substantially straight line along the top of the window well ahand-controlled slide ar ranged to slide along the track, a window ing lever arranged to be pivotally supported by a board at the side well and having its free end in slidable engagement with the bottom of the window sash, and a direct draft and thrust connection-between the slide and said lever.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature.

ANDREW CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.

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